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During 1905, the Public Health Committee of the County Council communicated to London
sanitary authorities a memorandum by their medical officer on the subject of voluntary notification of
phthisis, which contained suggestions for obtaining information as to the cases of phthisis attending
the out-patient departments of hospitals, with a view to the addresses of these patients being forwarded
to the medical officers of health concerned.
In April, 1905, the Metropolitan Asylums Board received a deputation urging the Board to take
action with a view to the provision of accommodation for the isolation and treatment of consumptive
patients. The annual report of the Board states that the Local Government Board have informed
the Managers " that the information at present before them does not appear to afford sufficient
justification for the veiy heavy outlay which would be involved in the proposals."
Cancer.
The deaths from cancer in the Administrative County of London during 1905 (365 days)
numbered 4.345.

For the purpose of enabling the incidence of cancer on the several populations of the sanitary
areas to be more precisely stated, factors have been calculated for correcting the death-rates, as far
as possible, for differences in the age and sex constitution of the several populations concerned.
These factors are shown in the following table, together with the death-rates for each sanitary area,
corrected by their application. Owing to the changes of area in the sanitary districts of London,
caused by the London Government Act of 1899, the death-rates since 1900 are the only figures
available for comparative purposes, but it can be seen from these figures that differences in
the age and sex constitution of the population are partially responsible for the differences in
the crude death-rates obtaining in the several districts.
Cancer.

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1 See footnote (1) page 9.
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